Dr Kerry Sara Myler
Qualifications:
Academic Employment:
Research Specialisms/Interests:
Publications:
L&T Publications:
Editorial Work
Professional Memberships
Professional Development (selected):
Conference Papers:
Projects/Groups:
- PhD in English Literature, University of Southampton, Awarded May 2011
- MA in Modern & Contemporary Writing, Loughborough University, Awarded Sept 2005
- BA (Hons) English, Loughborough University, Awarded July 2004
Academic Employment:
- Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Programme Leader for MA Applied Humanities, Newman University, Birmingham, April 2014 – present
- Lecturer in English, Newman University, Birmingham, Sept 2011 – April 2014
- Associate Lecturer in English, University of Portsmouth, Oct 2009 - June 2011
- Temporary Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, Oct 2006 - June 2011
Research Specialisms/Interests:
- Post-war and Contemporary Women's Writing
- Ecofeminism and Vegan Studies
- Doris Lessing
- Gender & Sexuality
- Contemporary Reading Practices
Publications:
- 'Han Kang.' The Literary Encyclopedia. 19 October 2021.
- 'Penelope Ruth Mortimer.' The Literary Encyclopedia. 28 February 2020.
- 'Doris Lessing, Anti-psychiatry, and Bodies that Matter.' Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
- ‘Food, Duty and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s’, The Routledge Companion of Literature and Food ed. by Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Donna Lee Brien (Routledge, 2018), pp. 66-75.
- 'Sex, Censorship and Identity' in The History of British Women's Writing, Vol IX, 1945-1975, ed. by C. Hanson & S. Watkins (London: Palgrave, 2017), pp. 108-123.
- Book Review: Robert Rubenstein's Literary Half-Lives in Contemporary Women's Writing 9.2 (2015), pp. 305-307.
- ‘“Something New”: Madness and Mothering in Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City', Doris Lessing Studies 31.1&2 (2013), pp. 15-20.
- 'You can't judge a book by its coverage: the body that writes and the television book club', in The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader: Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading, ed. by J. Ramone and H. Cousins (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 85-107.
L&T Publications:
- S. Parkes, A. Benkwitz, H. Bardy, K. Myler, J. Peters. 'Being more human: rooting learning analytics through resistance and reconnection with the values of Higher Education.' Higher Education Research & Development (2020) 39 (1), 113-126.
- A. Benkwitz, S. Parkes, H. Bardy, K. Myler, J. Peters, A. Akhtar, P. Keeling, R. Preece, T. Smith. 'Using student data: Student-staff collaborative development of compassionate pedagogic interventions based on learning analytics and mentoring'. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education (25), 2019.
Editorial Work
- Volume editor for The Literary Encyclopedia (2017 – present)
- Book Reviewer: Rowman & Littlefield (2018)
- Peer Reviewer: PMLA (2016); 20th Century Literature (2018); Australian Feminist Studies (2018)
- Editing Assistant to Prof. C. Hanson and Dr G. Dow (eds) for the Palgrave title Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives (2012)
- Editing Assistant to Eva Hoffman for Time, Big Ideas/Small Books Series (London: Profile Books, 2009) (Jan-Feb 2009)
- Research Assistant to the Book Review Editor for OUP’s journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (2008-2009)
Professional Memberships
- The Contemporary Women's Writing Association (Chair, 2019-2023; Membership Secretary, 2016-2019; Ordinary Member, 2013-2016)
- Newman Humanities Research Centre
- European Network for Short Fiction Research
- Doris Lessing Society
- British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies
- Contemporary Studies Network
Professional Development (selected):
- Making Blended Education Work, Edinburgh University with FutureLearn (Aug 2020)
- Get Interactive: Practical Teaching with Technology, 3 week MOOC, University of London & Bloomsbury Learning Environment (May 2017)
- Trust and 'Doctorateness' Symposium, Bristol (Feb 2017)
- CWWSkills Workshop series, various locations (2013-2014)
- Early Career Teachers of English conference-workshop programme, De Montfort University (Nov 2011)
- Teaching Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century, University of Brighton (Sept 2007)
- Completion of University of Southampton’s Threshold Induction to Effective Teaching and Learning course (Nov 2006)
- Completion of Loughborough University’s Preparing to Teach and Promoting Learning and Teaching Small Groups courses (May 2006)
Conference Papers:
- 'Cli-Fi won't save us but women's short story cycles might', Nantes University, France (April 2023)
- 'Women’s short story cycles: from nationalism to environmentalism', International Contemporary Women's Writing Association Conference: Locations and Dislocations, Algoma University, Ontario, Canada (July 2019)
- 'Han Kang, feminist politics, and experiments in form', CWWA 2018 Conference: Writing Wrongs, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (Sept 2018)
- ‘Doing contemporary literature through local events and virtual spaces', BACLS: What Happens Now?, Loughborough University (July 2018)
- 'Han Kang’s translated works and the future of the short story form', Beyond History: The Radiance of the Short Story, University of Lisbon, Portugal (June 2018)
- 'Collaborative development of pedagogic interventions based on learning analytics in English, Sport and Youth and Community work', Student Staff Partnership Project Celebration Day, Newman University (June 2018)
- 'The collaborative development of pedagogic interventions based on learner analytics', FASPS Stay Day, Newman University (June 2018)
- 'Student experiences of working in partnership to develop data-informed pedagogic interventions', Birmingham Digital Partnerships (June 2018)
- 'Evaluating the collaborative development of pedagogic interventions based on learning analytics', SEDA conference, Leeds (May 2018)
- 'Pro-active assessment of student activity: reflections on a pilot study into learning analytics at Newman University', Digifest, Birmingham (March 2018)
- 'Freedom to learn: student engagement, digital literary and assessment', Learning and Teaching Conference, Newman University (Jan 2018)
- 'Proactive assessment of student activity: reflections on a pilot study into learning analytics at Newman', Learning and Teaching Conference, Newman University (Jan 2018)
- 'Developing an assessment strategy with students', Learning and Teaching Conference, Newman University (Jan 2018)
- 'Freedom to learn: building communities through digital literacy', TILT Festival of Learning, Nottingham Trent (June 2017)
- 'Freedom to learn: student engagement and digital literacy', Learning & Teaching Conference, Bishop Grosseteste University (June 2017)
- ‘Making an Incision: Penelope Mortimer’s early fiction’, British Women’s Writing between 1930 and 1960: ‘Influences and Connectivity’, Chichester University (May 2017)
- ‘Gender, Madness and Bestiality in Contemporary Women’s Writing’, 'Literature, the Human and the Non-human', Humanities Research Group Seminar Series, Newman University (April 2017)
- ‘Gender, Madness and Bestiality in Contemporary Women’s Writing’, C21 Animal Voices Symposium, Brighton (Nov 2016)
- ‘With Suspicious Intent: Teaching the Pleasures of Short Fiction’, Child of the Century: Reading & Writing Short Fiction, Edge Hill (May 2016)
- ‘“Our great obsession”: Post-war women’s writing and the escape from sex censorship’, International Women’s Day Conference 2016: Resounding Voices, St. Aiden’s College, Durham University (March 2016)
- ‘“It is all a load of old socks”: Lessing, Laing and the Politics of Madness’, Doris Lessing Conference, University of Plymouth (Sept 2014)
- ‘A Posthumous Return: Doris Lessing, Women and Madness’, Texts, Contexts and Cultures: Humanities Research Group Seminar Series, Newman University (May 2014)
- 'Enhancing Learning with Moodle: A round table discussion with the English Subject Area', Learning & Teaching Conference, Newman University (Jan 2013)
- ‘"My mother, my matter. My mother, myself. My mother, my monstrousness": Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Female "Coming-of-Age" Novel', Contemporary Women's Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (July 2012)
- 'Mother\Daughter Relationships in Women’s Contemporary "Coming-of-Age" Novels', Writing Mothers\Daughters: 1780-2012, Newman University (June 2012)
- 'Between Madness and Medicine: Anti-Psychiatry and the Female Body in David Reed’s Anna (1976)', Paranoia and Pain, University of Liverpool (April 2012)
- 'Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and R. D. Laing’s Disembodied Selves', Demystifying Public Engagement: Gender and Sexuality Studies Beyond the Academy, Newcastle University (May 2011)
- 'Reading Minds/Writing Bodies: The Matter of the Body in Doris Lessing’s "Madness Novels"', Writing Bodies/Reading Bodies, University of Oxford (Sept 2009)
- '"They treat human beings as if they were rats": Questioning Intelligible Bodies in Lessing and Laing', MLA Convention 2008, Doris Lessing Panel, San Francisco (Dec 2008)
- 'The Sexual Politics of Madness: Constructing Intelligible Bodies in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook’, The Body Conference, Cardiff University (June 2008)
- ‘"If only I could get back inside Mother": Mary Barnes’s Journey into the Womb of the World', PGR Presentations Event: University of Southampton (May 2008)
- 'The Sexual Politics of Madness: Women’s Bodies and Anti-Psychiatry in David Reed’s Anna and R. D. Laing’s The Politics of Experience', Mind and Body, University of Reading (July 2007)
- ‘The Psychic and the Psychotic: Exceeding the boundaries of Perception and Physicality in Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City’, Boundaries, Loughborough University (June 2006)
Projects/Groups:
- SEAtS Implementation Task Group, Newman, 2018-present
- Electronic Assessment, Marking and Feedback Task Group, Newman, 2018-present
- Learning Analytics Steering Group, Newman, 2017-2018
- Learning Analytics Pilot, Newman Students as Partners Project 2017-2018
- Vlog It! Engaging English students with assessment and feedback Project, Newman Students as Partners Project, 2017
- Assessment Cycle Project, Newman Students as Partners Project, 2016
- Electronic Submission and Marking Feedback Group, Newman University, 2012-2013
- HEA web residency project, London, 2013